EKA Graphic Design presents SUVA Type Foundry, a new web platform, where one can download and buy fonts created by EKA GD students and alumni.

This exhibition marks the opening of the SUVA Type Foundry by featuring fonts and other typographical experiments from the past 15 years designed and created by students, alumni and faculty at EKA GD. The exhibit also showcases the department’s diverse archive, for example designs from the 1980s by professors Ivar Sakk and Villu Järmut.

The exhibited fonts are designed in lectures and workshops lead by renowned designers like Anton Koovit, Tuomas Kortteinen, Avigail Reiner, Johannes Breyer & Fabian Harb, Ott Metusala and others. Fonts designed as graduation projects are also featured.

Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Department of Leather Design, "WoW"

“A bag that doesn’t look like a bag” – this is the task our students get and it tells them to make a story with the help of a product where the form of the classic bag has vanished. Visitor of the exhibition can experience the so-called WOW effect looking at the works where something familiar is telling an unusual story, different from what to expect.

Greenhouse Tartu exhibits prototypes jointly created by the students of the departments of furniture and textile of Tartu Art College. The prototypes are inspired by experiments with material and form and by setting technical challenges. The exhibition is a cross-section of ideas presented throughout the years at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair; in collaboration with Estonian furniture manufacturers it has got the potential to reach wider use.

Pallas University of Applied Sciences. Applied research project MultiWeave

Textile students of Tartu Art College are developing method of creation of textile material (invented by Kadi Pajupuu) in the scope of the applied research project MultiWeave. The invention combines CNC technology. Prototypes of the machine MultiWeave (2016) and SpiderWeave (2017) were built during hackathons under the supervision of Anna Jõgi (Kriimsilm Tehnoloogiad). The partner from textile industry Urmas Mägi (Fein-Elast Estonia) is financing the development of the software.

City as an environment is the seedbed for ever-changing and developing culture. Creation springs up from the environment and also creates it. The work of Pallas students is the outcome of questions about the relationship between environment and creator, place and people. The authors are both giving and getting, using and creating, valuing the past and visualizing the future. The city is alive until creativity lives there. "I Live Here" is the first display of design of the Pallas University of Applied Sciences.

"Handicraft Technologies and Design" at Tallinn University Haapsalu College is a unique applied curriculum that provides the graduates with understanding of the essence, creation and sustainability of a personal product. We have turned our face towards the ongoing processes in society and elaboration of possible solutions of its pain spots. We highly value working with health promotion product concepts.

The masterclass dealt with the question how do we experience space and architecture with our sense of hearing. There have been binaural recording techniques, playback and sound inventions in public space. And the outcome of this masterclass was:

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture: Liveability in urban transformations

Reducing traffic with motor vehicles, care for the environment and economical use of resources – transferring these goals into urban city spaces should reflect an enhanced quality of life in the sense of social and cultural awareness of urban communities, continuing the awareness of the usefulness of dialogue with history, thus promoting regional identity. Projects: development of residential area in connection with natural surrounding; from isolated housing structure to cooperative housing, challenges of sustainable mobility street; and architecture as a way of transforming the life.

The former salt warehouses are located along a coastal path which connects some of the most beautiful destinations on the Slovene coast. The purpose of this project is to highlight the unexploited opportunities and to find a solution that would take full advantage of the qualities of this space and the two protected buildings through a well defined relation of the area to the wider context. The project establishes a thorough concept for the waterfront, develops a vision for the area of the former warehouses and proposes an intervention into the existing structures, with which the space within the two buildings becomes part of the seafront. With the proposed concept of use, the former warehouses become a new centre of public life, where activities and events for both tourists and locals take place all year round and throughout the day.

"Design and Technology Futures is built on an understanding that disciplinary, cultural and intellectual diversity, combined with a creative and open mindset, drives successful innovation.

The programme combines education and innovation into an enabling platform so students may search for new ways to address complex contemporary challenges by utilising the synergy that comes from creative practices and exploring emerging technologies.

Students are developed into T-shaped professionals with the ability to collaborate creatively across different fields and disciplines."

This year, the topic to inspire 7 - 19 y/o youngsters was: The Republic of Estonia 100 - Every place has its location. Environment design to enrich public space.

Students analyzed and developed design concepts to improve public spaces. NODI was organised in cooperation with six municipalities and AS Kiili Betoon.

Design courses for art teachers were held in four different corners of Estonia. Over 190 students from 11 schools participated in the competition. Kiili Betoon will produce roadblocks, skatepark seating, etc. based on the best concepts.

Hobby education fulfills a gap in design education and gives opportunity for children to highlight and improve their own creative ideas by going through the hole creative process from first sketches to finished product. This is study to find balance between interests and developing skills, and get over the obstacles like lack of skills and patience. Allso finding motivators like support, learning new techniques, playfulness. Crowing number and quality of skills encourages to play and create more.